title: A blueprint of pain curriculum across prelicensure health sciences programs: one NIH Pain Consortium Center of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPE) experience.
abstract: To improve U.S. pain education and promote interinstitutional and interprofessional collaborations, the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium has funded 12 sites to develop Centers of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPEs). Each site was given the tasks of development, evaluation, integration, and promotion of pain management curriculum resources, including case studies that will be shared nationally. Collaborations among schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and others were encouraged. The John D. Loeser CoEPE is unique in that it represents extensive regionalization of health science education, in this case in the region covering the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. This paper describes a blueprint of pain content and teaching methods across the University of Washington's 6 health sciences schools and provides recommendations for improvement in pain education at the prelicensure level. The Schools of Dentistry and Physician Assistant provide the highest percentage of total required curriculum hours devoted to pain compared with the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work. The findings confirm the paucity of pain content in health sciences curricula, missing International Association for the Study of Pain curriculum topics, and limited use of innovative teaching methods such as problem-based and team-based learning.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings confirm the paucity of pain education across the health sciences curriculum in a CoEPE that serves a large region in the United States. The data provide a pain curriculum blueprint that can be used to recommend added pain content in health sciences programs across the country.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Department of Global Health, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Electronic address: doorenbo@uw.edu.
authors.forename: Ardith Z
authors.initials: AZ
authors.lastname: Doorenbos
authors.forename: Deborah B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tauben
authors.forename: Jenny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Palisoc
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Drangsholt
authors.forename: Taryn
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lindhorst
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Danielson
authors.forename: June
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spector
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ballweg
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vorvick
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Loeser
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.) / Q000592:standards*; D018710:Pain Clinics / Q000592:standards*; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D012576:Schools, Health Occupations / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States
keywords: Pain education; WWAMI; curriculum; health sciences; prelicensure; teaching methods